She has signed with Duquesne

opponent Alter no strangers to playing at state

OTTAWA In the 42 year history of the Ohio girls state basketball tournament, only 24 teams have played in it three consecutive years.

No. 1 ranked Ottawa Glandorf (27 0) became one of those teams by qualifying for the Division II tournament for the second year in a row after playing in the D III tournament in 2015.

buy canada goose jacket cheap O G opponent will be Kettering Alter, which will be playing in its fourth consecutive state tournament and will be pursuing is third state title in a row. buy canada goose jacket cheap

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Whether the familiarity O G and Alter have with each other will be a significant factor in the game is debatable. The Titans coach Troy Yant said he doesn think it will be a factor.

know our personnel and we know theirs. It has its advantages and disadvantages, Yant said. seem to be a very similar team to last year. I don know that the advantage or disadvantage of playing them before is a huge benefit either way simply because I sure they very familiar with us too. 2 Alter is 26 2 with its only losses coming against Division I Springboro and Lakota West.

The Knights beat Ottawa Glandorf 74 48 in last year Division II championship game, led by Braxtin Miller, who scored 33 points.

In that game, O G came back from 13 points down to cut Alter lead cheap canada goose to four points late in the third quarter.

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were told it was a broken finger but it turned out later to be canada goose coats uk just dislocated. She may have been able to play but for safety precautions we held her out for the rest of the game and it went from a close game at the time to a catastrophic blowout at the end, Yant said.

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Miller is a better player this year than a year ago, Alter coach Chris Hart said.

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Senior Kylie White is O G leading scorer at 15.1 points a game and canada goose black friday deal averages 6.7 rebounds a game. Hempfling averages 12.3 points and 7.2 rebounds a game. The other returning starters, Erin Kaufman and Lexi Schroeder, average 9.2 and 7.7 points a game. First year starter Ashley Schroeder averages 3.3 points a game.

Canada Goose online Yant described Ottawa Glandorf as focused during the season and said there wasn a lot of thinking about a possible rematch with Alter until recently. Canada Goose online

canada goose uk shop we looked at the initial tournament draw we primarily looked at who we were going to have to play in districts. It always tough to get through our district where it basically a WBL championship and all those teams know you well and Bath and Wapakoneta are quality opponents. I don think we really looked ahead until we got past Wapak (in the district championship game) and started looking at who are the teams remaining, he said. canada goose uk shop

obviously, you could see where the brackets were heading but there were still some quality opponents. I don think we really thought about it until the game before Norton (in the regional championship game) that we could have a showdown with Alter coming. Hart said she considered the possibility of a rematch a little earlier.

the brackets came out one of our coaches checked to see what the brackets would look like at the regional level and canada goose uk kensington parka the state level. We had a sense that is a canada goose outlet florida possible match up for a while now, especially after the draw took place. We knew that could be a possibility if we were fortunate enough to get that far, she said.

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first trip was a D III trip canada goose hat uk and we had fought for three years to get to that point, going up against Liberty Benton and Archbold. Finally getting past Liberty Benton it was kind of like an achievement, a crowning moment that we had gotten there. Unfortunately we came up a little short against a very good Versailles team, he said.

second year it was kind of a surprise to make it down to the finals. Moving up a division, that was a pleasant surprise. Fortunately, we were able to play our best basketball down the canada goose outlet winnipeg tournament trail and really play well defensively.

year we came into the season with high expectations. Obviously, there was a bit of a target on our back. We felt all along in the last couple years this was the year we canada goose parka black friday were building for with last year being kind of a pleasant surprise. I don know canada goose factory outlet know if it a whole lot different. Your expectations at the beginning of the season are always to make a long tournament run, he said.